Senior Assistant Director - Land Adjudication at Public Service Commission Kenya (PSCK)

Qualifications and Requirements:
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:

(i) served for a cumulative period of fifteen (15) years, three (3) of which should have been at the grade of Principal Land Adjudication and Settlement Officer, Job Group ‘N’ and above;

(ii) a Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines: Land Survey, Law, Geography, Agriculture and Human Ecology Extension, Agriculture and Home Economics, Sociology or Community Development from a university recognized in Kenya;

(iii) attended a strategic leadership course in a recognized institution; and

(iv) demonstrated technical and professional competence as reflected in work performance and results.

NOTE: possession of a Masters degree in a relevant field will be considered as an added advantage.

Responsibilities:      
Duties and Responsibilities Specific duties and responsibilities include:

(i) planning and implementing adjudication and settlement activities;

(ii) guiding on feasibility studies and other research related programmes for creation of new land adjudication sections and settlement schemes;

(iii) managing land adjudication and settlement sensitization programmes;

(iv) identifying environmentally fragile areas in settlement schemes and adjudication sections and recommending their conservation;

(v) preparing settlers records to facilitate documentation and declaring and publishing adjudication sections;

(vi) ensuring collection and remittance of Appropriations-In-Aid and Agricultural Settlement Fund revenue;

(vii) investigating and resolving land adjudication and settlement complaints and cases; and

(viii) preparing and submitting regular plot occupancy survey reports.